Cray nutrition

[aquaculture]

I will have a breeding pair of cajun dwarfs coming in the next two weeks, i got them two little rock caves water is hard . what is the best inexpensive diet for these crays. tank is sponge filtered 10 gallon sand / small gravel substrate. tak mates would be mts and a trapdoor or two.

 

[black_sun]

Pick up a pack of Hikari Sinking Pellets. It provides them a rather balanced diet. You'll still need to provide them with other sources of nutrients though (eggs shells/cuttlebone, veggies/plants, meat, etc), but for a base diet, that one is pretty good for them.

 

[aquaculture]

hikari is quite pricy here, is their anything that can be bougnt in bulk for the price a individual package.

 

[black_sun]

Oh really? It's rather cheap here. Hmm, check out some of Ken's stuff: http://www.kensfish.com/ He's even got Invert foods with Calcium supplements added, good for crays. But you can buy large quantities fairly cheaply from him, and his food comes highly recommended.

 

[aquaculture]

thanks black_sun

 

[le patron]

i'm curious about this too, i had wild caught crays but they were usually just babies. i never fed them anything, they just ate flakes and pellets that sunk to the bottom and were pretty much a clean up crew.